Rookie Shunta Wakamatsu snapped the Chunichi Dragons’ eight-game losing skid with an impressive first career shutout on Sunday as they beat the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants 5-0. The right-hander scattered five hits, struck out six and walked two in a 139-pitch outing for his ...

Hanshin Tigers starter Atsushi Nomi threw one-run ball over six innings and was gifted three first-inning runs in a 4-2 win over the Yomiuri Giants on Wednesday. The Tigers loaded the bases with two outs in the first against Giants lefty Aaron Poreda (6-5), ...

Kazumi Takahashi, a left-hander who won two Sawamura Awards for the Yomiuri Giants during their run of nine straight Japan Series championship seasons, has died of multiple organ failure, informed sources said Wednesday. He was 69. Takahashi, who had a career record of 167-132 ...

The Yokohama BayStars turned the game around on its head with seven runs in the fifth inning as they beat the Yomiuri Giants 10-3 on Tuesday. Yokohama erased a three-run deficit in the fourth and Yoshitomo Tsutsugo knocked out Toshiya Sugiuchi (6-5) in the ...

Shintaro Fujinami, aiming to win his fifth straight start, imploded on Saturday, surrendering seven runs in 5-2/3 innings in the Hanshin Tigers’ 11-2 whipping at the hands of the Yomiuri Giants. Fujinami (7-5), who had won six straight decisions dating back to May 14, ...

Toshiya Sugiuchi allowed two runs in 7⅓ innings to help the Yomiuri Giants move a game clear at the top of the Central League standings as they beat the Tokyo Yakult Swallows 7-4 on Wednesday. Sugiuchi (6-4) gave up six hits, while walking two ...

Tuesday night was “Hisayoshi Chono Player’s Day” at Tokyo Dome, and it was only fitting the man of the hour stole the show. Chono hit a game-tying three-run triple in the sixth inning, then scored the tiebreaking run on Shinnosuke Abe’s sacrifice fly in ...

Yuya Fukui, who turned down the Yomiuri Giants when they drafted him out of high school, spurned the Central League champs again on Thursday, going eight impressive innings for the Hiroshima Carp in a 3-2 victory. The right-hander, who went on to Waseda University ...

In a series that is ostensibly about the best and most popular players in Nippon Professional Baseball, Central League manager Tatsunori Hara pulled an unusual move on Thursday, naming pinch runner Takahiro Suzuki to his squad. While fans have occasionally voted popular players to ...

It took nearly the entire game, but the Yomiuri Giants finally found the solution to their Hiroki Kuroda problem. Shinnosuke Abe hit a game-tying single with one out in the bottom of the ninth and Yoshiyuki Kamei delivered a sacrifice fly to end it ...

Leadoff man Tetsuto Yamada batted in two and scored two for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in a 6-4 win over the Yomiuri Giants on Sunday. Yamada turned the game around in the fifth inning, slamming a two-run home run off Tomoyuki Sugano (6-6) for ...

The Yokohama BayStars fans who made the trip to Tokyo were loud, enthusiastic, and kept cheering all the way until the end of their team’s game against the Yomiuri Giants. For the first time in a while, their revelry didn’t end with the final ...